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Kaspersky Lab to Introduce Virtual Networking and Security Solution for New VMware Ready Program

Solution Prototype Being Previewed at VMworld® 2012 in San Francisco

Woburn, MA –August 27, 2012 – Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of security
and threat management solutions, today announced its intent to develop a new
solution to secure network traffic as part of the newly announced VMware Ready™
for Networking and Security Program. The
solution, which will be integrated within Kaspersky Security for
Virtualization, will now offer enhanced protection utilizing Intrusion Detection and
Intrusion Prevention technologies, providing agentless security to protect
virtual machines from network attacks.

This announcement comes six
months after Kaspersky Lab released an agentless security solution for VMware
vShield Endpoint™. The future addition
of these new traffic-monitoring technologies will further bolster Kaspersky
Lab’s security offerings for VMware virtual and cloud environments. Customers using Kaspersky Lab will have a unified management platform to administer their
virtual, physical and mobile environments.

Kaspersky Lab is working with
VMware to provide IDS/IPS technologies using the new VMware Ready™ for Networking and Security Program, which will enable
customers to continue utilizing their existing investments in networking and
security products, while realizing the efficiency and agility benefits of
VMware cloud infrastructure through validated joint solutions “The Kaspersky Difference” gives network
administrators the benefits of straightforward
deployment, automatic protection of new virtual machines, mapping of both
logical and physical computing structures, and automatic security updates, all
managed by “a single pane of glass,” the Kaspersky Security Center
administration console.

In addition to straightforward
administration and management Kaspersky Security for Virtualization was
designed with efficiency in mind, and delivers the best balance of malware
protection and network performance with increased
consolidation ratios for customers. All
network traffic scanning is off-loaded to a single anti-malware signature
database and anti-malware scanning engine, ensuring organizations reap the
maximum resource efficiency from their virtual network.

The New Challenges for
Virtual SecurityAccording
to a global survey of businesses conducted by O+K Research in March 2012, 81 percent of US companies run
business-critical services in virtual environments. Clearly, the benefits of virtualization can
clearly be seen by businesses. But while
businesses rush to virtualize, many don’t fully recognize the security
implications. Of the same businesses
surveyed:

53 percent of businesses surveyed
in the US are not securing their virtual infrastructure

27 percent believe that the
security risks in a virtual environment are lower or significantly lower than
those for physical infrastructure

Moreover,
businesses that plan to secure their virtual environments seem to have a
“one-size fits all” attitude. More than
half of US businesses are either not interested in agent-less security
solutions for virtual infrastructure, or are interested but not planning to
adopt it. Only 17% of US companies (18% in Europe) have confirmed the
implementation of such security for their virtual infrastructure.

What does that mean? Not only are an alarming number of businesses
unaware of the security risks associated with virtual environments, but the
many of the organizations that actually plan to implement
security are using a less-than-ideal solution.
Applying an agent-based solution to virtual networks – the same model
applied to the physical network – can result in significant performance losses
across the network. Instead of applying
physical protection methods to virtual machines, an agent-less security
solution eliminates the need for duplicated resources on each virtual machines,
helping to optimize performance, reduce hardware costs and energy consumption,
and provide detailed logging of security tasks to satisfy compliance auditing
requirements.

QUOTES:Petr
Merkulov, Chief Product Officer,Kaspersky
Lab“At Kaspersky Lab, we know that
every technological innovation is eventually targeted by cybercriminals. Our mission is to make sure security
technology keeps up with the rapid pace of innovation, allowing businesses to
make cutting-edge improvements without leaving their IT infrastructure exposed. This is the second time in 2012 that
Kaspersky Lab and VMware have worked hand-in-hand to deliver the very best user
experience for our mutual customers, and we look forward to our continued
partnership.”

Parag Patel, vice president,
Global Strategic AlliancesVMware“Our virtualization and
cloud-infrastructure solutions are built to give businesses the agility to stay
competitive, and the freedom to work with other technology-providers as they
choose. The VMware Ready™ for Networking and Security Program will enable our partner
community to easily integrate their products with VMware cloud infrastructure,
including VMware vSphere® and the VMware vCloud® product portfolio, to deliver
validated joint solutions. Kaspersky Lab has a stellar reputation for
protection and efficiency, and we’re pleased to see this latest announcement
bringing new layers of protection to virtual networks.”

Kaspersky
Security for Virtualization will be demoed at the VMworld Conference in the
Moscone Center, San Francisco, at booth #1801. Product availability and pricing
has not been finalized.

Kaspersky Lab is the world’s largest privately held
vendor of endpoint protection solutions. The company is ranked among the
world’s top four vendors of security solutions for endpoint users*. Throughout
its 15-year history Kaspersky Lab has remained an innovator in IT security and
provides effective digital security solutions for consumers, SMBs and
Enterprises. The company currently operates in almost 200 countries and territories
across the globe, providing protection for over 300 million users worldwide.
Learn more at www.kaspersky.com.

*The company
was rated fourth in the IDC rating Worldwide Endpoint Security Revenue by
Vendor, 2010. The rating was published in the IDC report Worldwide IT Security
Products 2011-2015 Forecast and 2010 Vendor Shares – December 2011. The report
ranked software vendors according to earnings from sales of endpoint security
solutions in 2010.

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